Business Driven Technology, 9th Edition, 9781265361686

Unlike any other MIS text, Business Driven Technology, 9e,discusses various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion in the text first addresses the business needs and then addresses the technology that supports those needs.

Business Driven Technology offers you the flexibility to customize courses according to your needs and the needs of your students by covering only essential concepts and topics in the five core units, while providing additional in-depth coverage in the business and technology plug-ins.

Business Driven Technology contains 18 chapters (organized into five units), 10 business plug-ins, and 11 technology plug-ins offering you the ultimate flexibility in tailoring content to the exact needs of your MIS course. The unique construction of this text allows you to cover essential concepts and topics in the five core units while providing you with the ability to customize a course and explore certain topics in greater detail with the business and technology plug-ins.

Unit 1.Achieving Business Success

Chapter 1: Business Driven Technology

Chapter 2: Identifying Competitive Advantages

Chapter 3: Strategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive Advantages

Chapter 4: Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives

Chapter 5: Organizational Structures That Support Strategic Initiatives

Unit 2.Exploring Business Intelligence

Chapter 6: Valuing and Storing Organizational Information—Databases

Chapter 7: Accessing Organizational Information—Data Warehouses

Chapter 8: Understanding Data’s Impact on Business

Unit 3. Streamlining Business Operations

Chapter 9: Enabling the Organization—Decision Making

Chapter 10: Extending the Organization—Supply Chain Management

Chapter 11: Building a Customer-Centric Organization—Customer Relationship Management

Chapter 12: Integrating the Organization from End to End—Enterprise Resource Planning

Unit 4. Building Innovation

Chapter 13: Creating Innovative Organizations

Chapter 14: E business

Chapter 15: Creating Collaborative Partnerships

Unit 5. Transforming Organizations

Chapter 16: Integrating Wireless Technology in Business

Chapter 17: Developing Software to Streamline